[discostu]

Saying you were speaking metaphorically after the fact is just piling lies on lies. There's no Judeo-Christian ethic against driving the competition out of business, and since you included that in your little sarcastic rant it's obvious that the type of killing you were talking about was the real, illegal, and immoral kind.

I'm perfectly intellectually honest. I go to work to make money, I make money by helping my company stay the number solution in our field, if that means the competition goes out of business that's not my problem. My problem is making sure our products are the best of breed and don't give the customer any reason to use anything else. If that makes me a heartless, cruel amoral capitalist then I'm OK with that. I shave every morning, mirrors don't bother me in the least.

[Havoc]

Oh, come now, let's not over-react. He's just doing what I did earlier - highlighting the absurd with sarcastic witt. You're trying to make a personal attack out of it in order - you think - to recover your composure and assume a high ground by claiming martyrdome and shouting that you've been wronged.. Standard run hide argument in debate - in fact, debate 101 tactics for the unethical. Next absurdity?

[Gekko The Great]

LOL. Your weak assertion does not even stand the test of elementary logic and reading comprehension. Look at what I said in post #490, keeping as much context as we can:

Ah, good. A man after my own heart. It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is...conversation. Just kill everybody else and devil take the hindmost. Ethics, morality, doing the right thing, all of those are for sissies, sentimental Judeo-Christian ethics that are outmoded in the globalist capitalist world. To hell with anything and anyone who gets in the way of the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar. Right on!

Now, I know it’s hard, but try to follow this. See where I use the word “kill” in the fifth sentence. Then notice the concluding phrase. If I meant “kill” as you are lyingly trying to accuse me of, how could there be anyone left for the devil to take the hindmost? They’d be dead, so the devil either wouldn't get them or he’d have them anyway, no need to take them. But, if you view it for it’s true meaning, that is, run everyone else out of business or otherwise destroy them to enrich yourself, the meaning is clear. Profits are the only things that matter, so destroy whomever you have to so you can get more money for yourself.

If that makes me a heartless, cruel amoral capitalist then I'm OK with that.

Of that I’m sure. Don’t worry, history provides you with plenty of company. Nero fiddled while Rome burned and was okay with that. The masses in the Coliseum enjoyed their bread and circuses while the lions devoured the early Christians and were okay with that. It is said that Eichmann was a reliable churchgoer and kind to animals, but he presided over the slaughter of millions. You may not be in the same league as this rogue’s gallery, but the principle is the same. People who do wrong things always seem to find ways to rationalize and live with them. It doesn't make them right, just deluded.

[XBob]

506 - "it's obvious that the type of killing you were talking about was the real, illegal, and immoral kind. "

LOL - you free traitors have spent this whole thread arguing that there are no morals, or ethis, or laws for corporations, as long as they make a profit. Profit trumps all.

ROTFL

Havoc - I'd like a share in your sarcastic 'murder for hire' corporation. and I am sure discostu would support my right to that, my property, and our right to earn some profit.